Dr Michelle Brown's postdoc with me will end in a few weeks' time. It has been a fantastic time of establishing her StoryBabies research program (we even coined the term during her postdoc). She has had rich engagement opportunities with speech pathologists, educators and librarians across Australia. She has led the Library Talks for Speech Pathology Austrlalia and the Australian Librarians Association. A longer list will be uploaded soon. It has been a pleasure working with her.
Congratulations to my postdoctoral scholar, Dr Michelle Brown, who has collaborated with Speech Pathology Australia to present the Speechie Library Talks across Australia.
https://www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au/library
This event was launched at the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards today.
She is also organising short courses for librarians, early childhood educators and speech pathologists about early storybook reading.
Today the School of Humanities and Social Science presented the Faculty of Arts and Education (FoAE) Research and Graduate Studies Research Café ‘Fellowship Reflections’ featuring Charles Sturt University FoAE Research fellowship holders: Karen Bell, Tamara Cumming, Sharynne McLeod, Dominic O’Sullivan and Peter Simmons
Please join us for this rare opportunity to hear about the work of our distinguished colleagues. This forum promotes interdisciplinary dialogue in an informal setting, enabling the sharing of the experiences of fellowships and the outcomes and achievements that are possible. Each presenter will talk about what they learned from the fellowships and how these learnings apply to all researchers in the faculty.
When: October – 3-5pm
Where: https://charlessturt.zoom.us/j/66168584352
Schedule of events:
Presentation title - Research leadership, engagement and capacity-building
Karen is an Associate Professor of Social Work and Human Services in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and is co-leader of the Environment and Social Justice Research Group. Karen’s research area is broadly social justice in social work practice and education in national and international contexts, areas of focus include transformative philosophy of social work; gender; rural and regional service delivery.
Presentation title - Early childhood educators’ well-being: local data and international perspectives
Tamara is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Teacher Education, co-leader of the CSU Early Childhood Research Group, and co-leader of the Early Childhood Educators’ Well-being Project. Tamara’s research focuses on the well-being and sustainability of the early childhood workforce, and on the complexity of early childhood practice.
Professor Sharynne McLeod
Presentation title - Resilient communicators
Prof Sharynne McLeod has been an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, is an elected Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Life Member of Speech Pathology Australia and past Vice President of the International Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics Association. The Australian Newspaper named her Australia’s Research Field Leader in Audiology, Speech and Language Pathology in 2018, 2019, 2020 based on the “quality, volume and impact” of research. In 2018 she edited a special issue of International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (Taylor&Francis) on Communication Rights which she presented at the United Nations in 2019.
Presentation title - Sharing the sovereign – citizenship, recognition and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Dominic is Associate Professor of Political Science at CSU and Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Maori Health Research at the Auckland University of Technology. During his Senior Research Fellowship Dominic finished two books: ‘We Are All Here to Stay’: citizenship, sovereignty and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which was published in September by ANU Press, and Sharing the sovereign: Indigenous peoples, recognition, treaties and the state which will be published by Palgrave Macmillan early in the new year.
Presentation title - Social media, policy and coexistence
Peter is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Industries. Peter’s research is focused on gathering evidence that supports effective public policy and communication strategies. His research interests span interpersonal and organisational communication, qualitative, quantitative and qualquant research methods. He has had three great loves in research – Football referees and the communication of fairness; Strategic Local government communication as instrument of democracy; Social media and coexistence.
Thanks to Dr Donna Bridges – School of Humanities and Social Science Research Seminar Series coordinator for organising the event dbridges@csu.edu.au
I am very honoured to learn that I am Australia's Research Field Leader in Audiology, Speech & Language Pathology for the third year in a row: 2018, 2019, 2020: https://specialreports.theaustralian.com.au/1540291/18/
This is wonderful confirmation of the impact of collaborative research with my Speech-Language-Multilingualism Team, since during 2018-2019 my personal research productivity was diminshed due to my cancer treatments.
Here are our accomplishments in The Australian Research Rankings since they began:
I am pleased that three CSU professors were named in 2020:
CSU wrote a news release about the recognition: https://news.csu.edu.au/latest-news/three-charles-sturt-researchers-named-australian-leaders-in-their-fields
Here is how each ranking is calculated:
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| Finding out the news while on leave and celebrating with lavendar and lemon scones straight from the oven! |
Here are some news stories and my blog posts about our recognition in previous years:
SUMMARY: In 2018, 2019 and 2020 I was named Australia’s Research Field Leader in Audiology, Speech and Language Pathology and in 2019 was named the “best in the world based on the quality, volume and impact of work” by The Australian Newspaper who also named Charles Sturt University the Lead Institution in Audiology, Speech and Language Pathology in 2018 and 2019.
This afternoon I received the following email. It was a priviledge to be invited as a keynote speaker.
As the SLP2B 2020: Communicating with Confidence comes to a close on the 17 September, the SPA Student Reps would like to thank you again for sharing your knowledge and expertise with all our members. The uptake of the inaugural online version of this event has exceeded our expectations. The valuable resources you contributed to have been well received by students and clinicians within Victoria as well as across Australia and the globe. The website has had over 1,143 visits and over 1,020 video views. Without your valuable contribution, this event would not have been possible. Thank you.
Kindest regards Bridget, Bronte, Danielle, Kathleen, Maddison, Nicole, Wendy
SPA Victorian Branch Student Representatives
The details of the conference are here: https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/2020/08/invited-presentations-at-slp2b-2020.html
Today I started a new CV writing workshop group with another group of colleagues from the Faculty of Arts and Education. What collegial discussions we have had. The group voted to continue meeting regularly and had a list of topics to discuss. I'm looking forward to our next meeting.
I am a member of the new Charles Sturt University Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Action Group. Here are two recent examples of integrating SDGs throughout CSU research that I have been involved in:
Additionally, here are some CSU news releases about my research and alignment with SDGs (esp. 3, 4, and 10):
The Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings assess universities against the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In 2020, Charles Sturt participated in THE’s Impact Rankings for the first time. We ranked 61st overall out of 766 global participants. We also achieved two top 10 rankings in the Reduced Inequalities and Gender Equality categories. To support Charles Sturt’s 2021 submission, a THE Impact Rankings ‘Action Group’ is being established. Action Group members will champion opportunities to strengthen institutional support for the SDGs and gather evidence for the 2021 submission. The Action Group will support Charles Sturt’s objectives to further integrate the SDGs in operations, curriculum, research and engagement with the wider community.
This week the SLP2B 2020 Conference is being run by the Speech Pathology Australia Student Association at LaTrobe University, Australian Catholic University, and Melbourne University.
I was invited to be a keynote speaker (here.). First I was invited to prepare at 10 minute presentation. My topic was "Speaking up for communication rights at the United Nations" and the presentation is here.
Additionally, I was interviewed by Bridgett James and Danielle Vidoni who asked some fabulous questions on behalf of speech pathology students. Our interview is here.
The students also invited other researchers (including A/Prof Jane McCormack, Prof Pamela Snow), speech pathologists and a consumer to provide their insights. It was great to see their initiative in transitioning from a face-to-face conference to an online conference. As a result it was available for many more speech pathology students than they had originally planned to reach. Congratulations to the organisers and best wishes to all of the SLP2Bs as they navigate an extremely unusual year of their studies during the COVID-19 pandemic. I believe that they will be more resiliant, creative and responsive as a result.
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| Bridgett James, Sharynne McLeod and Danielle Vidoni |
Here is the description of the conference by Speech Pathology Australia
SLP2B 2020
SLP2B is back for another year but this year with a twist - we are going online! The Victorian Branch Student Reps have outdone themselves and thought innovatively to organise SLP2B 2020. Speech-Language Pathologist 2 Be is a student seminar organised by students, for students. The Victoria Branch SPA reps have been working hard to bring this event back against the odds (thanks a bunch 2020) and managed to organise a star lineup of speakers to share their wealth of knowledge with you. What’s even better is that you can access their expertise at your leisure! Speech Pathologists from different sectors will talk about their career pathways, and a consumer will share their personal SP therapy experiences. Because it's online this year, participants can access the event at their leisure from 17 August until 17 September. Please find details online.
Today we launched Charles Sturt University Early Childhood Research Group website: https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains
We also have a new Twitter account: @CSU_ECRG
We will be advertising the Early Childhood Voices 2020 Conference very soon!
Here is our overview:
The Early Childhood Research Group (ECRG) promotes social justice for children, families and practitioners working with the early childhood sector (generally birth-8 years). We do this by using innovative methods, theories and partnerships with children, families, practitioners and the early childhood sector to co-produce, translate and implement research, and to generate evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence. Our research emphasises sustainability, children’s rights, enhancing children’s access to, participation in and outcomes from equitable, quality early childhood programs and services, workforce sustainability, and transformation of the social, policy and organisational conditions that enable social justice. We seek opportunities to bridge gaps and promote holistic approaches between settings (early childhood education and care, schools, homes, health and disability services), and bodies (government departments, international and national organisations). We build capacity for engaging in transformative research within our group and with other researchers.
We are guided by Charles Sturt University’s ethos: Yindyamarra winhanganha "The wisdom of respectfully knowing how to live well in a world worth living in" and Charles Sturt University’s motto: "For the public good". We also align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 3, 4, 8, 10
More information
Website (CSU-FOAE) https://arts-ed.csu.edu.au/research/research-groups/early-childhood-research-group
Our research (CRO) https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/organisations/early-childhood-research-group
Our impact (PlumX) https://plu.mx/csu-au/g/early-childhood-research-group
Please contact us if you would like to join our research group, partner with us, or participate in our research.We welcome comments and inquiries from professionals, researchers, research partners, and aspiring PhD students. Dr Tamara Cumming tcumming@csu.edu.au and Professor Sharynne McLeod smcleod@csu.edu.au
We have purchased some fantastic new iStock images to use on the website.
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| Belinda, Sharynne, Jenny, Rahul, Jess, James + Brian |
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| Holly McAlister |
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| Dr Michelle Brown |
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| Dr Suzanne Hopf |
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| 7am Rochester / 11am Iceland / 9pm Bathurst |
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| Meeting 2 with A. Prof Branka Krivokapic-Skoko |
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| Planning team - Tamara Cumming, Sharynne McLeod and Nicola Ivory |
